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Amazing Race's Jaymes and James: We Had a Lot of Taxi Trouble
Don't tell Jaymes and James they lost The Amazing Race yet. "Somebody did actually tweet that we won, so I retweeted it! I was like, "'Yeah!'" Jaymes tells TVGuide.com. "Spreading false information! [We'll] hashtag 'sorry, Josh and Brent'! We're proud of what we got. We got a silver medal in The Amazing Race. That's freakin' awesome. What an accomplishment for two guys who couldn't even find the abacus lady in the first leg to make it to the final leg in the Race." Despite falling behind early on the final leg, the fan-favorite Chippendales made up time at the final Roadblock, but it wasn't enough to overtake the Beekmans. Find out how close they were.
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What was going through your head when you saw that you were second? You looked so devastated afterward.
Jaymes: We had two goals. Goal No. 1 was to win this money for our families, to take care of James' mom and to take care of my dad. Goal No. 2 was to get through the entire Race and to have a great time doing it. We accomplished the selfish goal of completing the last leg and we had hope we could win until we saw them. We're OK with second, but when you go on the Race with a goal like we had, it sucks to let your family down. ... That was the first time on the whole Race I was actually speechless. James had my back there. I was devastated. The cameras shut off and I didn't know I could cry like that. I just had to go to the corner and have a second after it was over because I really thought we were going to win. We really felt like we had something extra to make it happen.
James: You're grateful for the experience, but you also want to bring something back to the people who helped you out. While it was exhilarating to make it to the final three and come in second place, it was disappointing to not be able to help our families the way we originally intended and set out to do.
How far behind were you?
James: It was mere minutes. I don't know how it looked on TV, but it was mere minutes. The last challenge was really tough. Everyone struggled with it.
Jaymes: We had a lot of taxi trouble that you didn't really see. ... Our biggest challenge then was finding Gotham Hall. We thought it was something Batman was at! [Laughs] Finally, a police department helped us. ... We got to that last challenge pretty far behind. Because everyone struggled, I don't think many people realized how fast James did that. We didn't know the "hellos" and "goodbyes," but we did learn "please" and "thank you" because that's what you should learn to be polite. We had a good knowledge of what the languages were.
James: I could kind of sound it out for certain countries where I knew the flag and I felt pretty confident. I felt like I was able to make up some ground as far as the time we lost from being behind after the boardwalk. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite fast enough to close the gap and pass Josh and Brent.
Do you think the time you wasted at the boardwalk did you in?
Jaymes: No. I think it was our taxi trouble, to be honest. We had amazing taxis the entire Race and it finally caught up to us. I would love to do a Race where there were no taxis. Whenever we had to drive, we were first or second. ... It's nothing against these taxi drivers. They can't possibly know every location in every city. No one's the Yellow Pages. It's just unfortunate our bad taxi luck kicked in trying to find Lombardi's, trying to find Gotham Hall. I don't even know when we got lost because we don't know our way around the city! We saw the sights, so that was nice! [Laughs] We circled Lombardi's about 16 times before we got there. Then our taxi driver just took off and left us in the dust.
How long did it take for you to see the sign at Coney Island?
James: We had tunnel vision at that stage. It was the last leg and we were absolutely certain it was going to be some crazy ride. We just completely missed it. But even at that point, we weren't that far behind. They discovered it a little quicker, but it wasn't fatal. But then our taxi left us! All those little setbacks add up until you have a bigger time deficit than you started with.
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Do you have poor observational skills? You missed the abacus lady during the first leg and now this.
Jaymes: [Laughs] We even said that this was the doggone abacus lady in New York City. Here she is and we can't find her again. But on the first leg, it took us from the front to the back. We really were not that far behind after the New York abacus lady.
How strong was the alliance between you, Natalie and Nadiya, and Trey and Lexi?
Jaymes: The alliance may have looked intense, but it was just working with people that you've clicked with and spent time with. I think what people forget when they watch is that we Racers don't see everyone or everything. You do at home because the show is edited to show everything and everyone. We enjoyed Trey and Lexi's and the twins' company. We hadn't met the Beekmans really. We had been separated from them and when we spent time with them in Spain and France, we were like, "Oh, we like you guys too! Let's race around France together!" I think had we met Josh and Brent earlier, we would've had a great time with them and we probably would've had an alliance of four. And we're so happy they won. But it's weird how you could be running the Race and not get to know anyone for days. We didn't even get to talk to James and Abba until Russia.
Abbie andRyan said you guys had an alliance early on and that's why they were so upset with you U-Turning them. Did you?
Jaymes: We didn't want to do that to anyone. We met a lot of amazing people on the Race.
How's your dad doing?
Jaymes: My dad's a fighter. You tell him that he has incurable cancer and he's going to say, "Hey, I'm going to show you that it actually is curable." He's in a huge treatment plan of chemo and radiation. We started a website to help with all the expenses that come with it, www.forgetcancernow.com. If every Amazing Race fan donated $1, we could take care of everything. People don't realize the value of $1. It's been amazing just seeing the support from people. My dad's prescriptions are $2,500 per prescription. I want to call my parents and say, "Hey, this is paid for." James and I believe that your parents take care of you when you're a kid and then you take care of them when you're an adult. We were given this platform for a reason. I firmly believe that we were put on a national television show at this time, even though we did not win, to still raise the money to take care of my dad.
Are the cars a nice consolation?
James: Do we actually get cars or do they just say that? [Laughs]
Jaymes: I can't wait to see James give his mom the car. That was his goal: I can't wait to get my mom a car with the $1 million. We were neck-and-neck with Trey and Lexi, and we just happened to get there before them and I think it was because James' mom was supposed to get this car. I'm giving my parents my car and they're gonna sell it to pay for my dad's medical expenses. The trips are nice, but the cars can help our parents. It was definitely the best leg for us to win besides the final leg.
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What else are you up to?
Jaymes: When's the next Race start? We're ready to go back!
You're a shoo-in for Unfinished Business 2.
James: That sounds great to me! I'd love to go through the experience again. I'd love to do an All-Stars.
Jaymes: It was so fun. You gotta go do it. I tell everybody I meet that they have to do it. But we're at the Rio seven nights a week! James' band My Name Engraved is releasing new music.
James: We recorded a new EP. It should be out next month.
Jaymes: I have a brand new single coming out as well called "Tonight." And just making the most of life. You never know what day's your last, so live life to the fullest. That was reflected on the Race. You never know what leg is going to be your last, so run it like it's your last and enjoy it.
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Valve Announces Dota 2 for PC and Mac in 2011
The game is essentially Defense of the Ancients-Allstars and the Warcraft III mod's full 100+ character roster is being brought over in its entirety. The gameplay will also be unchanged.
"Our first reaction is to assume that [design elements are] there for a reason," project lead Erik Johnson explains. "IceFrog is one of the smartest designers we've ever met. He's made so many good decisions over the years in building the product. He virtually never makes a decision that doesn't have some reasoning behind it and a way to pick apart the logic behind it."
Dota 2, as a Valve project, will naturally use the Source Engine, which will get improvements to the global lighting engine along with true cloth simulation. Dota 2 will also gain integrated voice chat from its move outside of a Warcraft III mod. Dota 2 adds AI bots for disconnected players and for practice games, but there will not be a singleplayer campaign.
Steamworks will also be getting an overhaul for Dota 2 with support for in-game rewards, which can be earned by participating in the Dota 2 community. "Everything from unlocking new skins for your favorite hero to getting a unique title for writing a strategy guide is on the table," explains GameInformer. The improvements to both the Source Engine and Steamworks will be available to third-party developers after the launch of Dota 2.
Valve will also be adding a coaching system to the game, which will allow skilled players to log in as "coaches" and earn in-game rewards for highly-rated coaching, as voted by the students. A coach will be able to see the student's screen and give them tips and pointers over voice-chat.
"IceFrog was one of the smartest people we've ever met about doing that, and he was doing it with both hands tied behind his back, so to speak," said Valve founder Gabe Newell. He likens the future of Dota 2 as a "service" to that of Valve's Team Fortress 2. "Valve is going to keep building software around Dota and around the community and around Steamworks for Dota, but we're also going to build this system where the community can bring service to each other and be recognized for it," adds Johnson.
Dota 2, by all accounts, is a feature-laced port of the original DotA-Allstars to the Source Engine, not a new game. S2 Games (Heroes of Newerth) and Riot Games (League of Legends) both operate DotA-alike games, with HoN being much closer to the original DotA. League of Legends is quite different within the DotA sub-genre and is also free-to-play, supported by micro-transactions.
Valve's Dota 2 will be released in 2011 for the PC and Mac. Interested parties can find a lot more information over at Game Informer.

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"Could you really lose weight just by eating healthy and not exercising?"
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Eating a healthy diet does not ensure that you will lose weight. Your weight is a balance between the calories you take in and the calories you burn. If you eat a low-calorie diet you will lose weight, and if you eat more calories than you burn off you will gain weight. Adding physical activity allows you to burn more calories than dieting alone.
Any weight-loss plan that includes regular exercise is not only more successful -- it's also healthier. By eating a healthy diet and exercising, you're keeping your bones, muscles, and heart strong and decreasing your risk of developing certain diseases. Even if you don't necessarily lose weight, you will be healthier and you will feel and look better, too.


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Empire Blocks – New York City's Highballs
Constructing New York's modern highballs.
Perched on the rickety limb of an old oak tree, I signaled to Andy Salo that I was ready to shoot. He calmly wiped the
bright orange pine needles from his climbing shoes and started up the commanding 45-degree arete, which resembled a giant petrified log. Only moments
before, Andy had completed the first ascent of this imposing problem, dubbed Ideas Are Bulletproof (V11), in the Gunks. The small festive
scene of climbers that had reveled in his original and undocumented first ascent was now silent, full of suspense over the simulated attempt. When
Andy approached the no-fall zone, the spotters became visibly anxious and shifted the pads to prepare for an out-of-control fall. My hands tightened
on the camera and my breath shortened. A mystical symbiosis was taking place, and I could feel the palpable sense of danger in my bones. A series of
insecure compression moves brought Andy to the tenuous crimps 16 feet above the talus pit. Looking solid and at ease, he executed the moves with watchmaker
precision and topped out at 25 feet.
Despite having been a mere observer, I shared the satisfaction of topping out on a tall and dangerous line way out of my comfort zone. Andy Salo is one
of the most confident climbers I've ever had the experience of photographing.
Watching him climb Ideas Are Bulletproof three times in the face of fatigue inspired me to ask him and other local boulderers and see if they'd
be willing to help me share these hidden treasures of southeastern New York.
This photo essay is more than just a series of adrenaline-inducing action shots. It is an ode to the local and unknown — to that boulder in your backyard
that may never appear in a guidebook, but contains your favorite holds and best experiences. These lines may not be the most difficult, nor are their
ascents groundbreaking, but they are beautiful, proud and represent significant personal achievements for the climbers. The boulderers in this piece
are all hard-working people with normal jobs who also happen to be gifted at scaling large blocks. Their vision for lines in areas off the beaten path
or previously thought to be tapped out has resulted in dozens of new problems.
This is my visual homage not just to the New York bouldering community, but to all those climbers out there pushing their physical and psychological limits,
expecting nothing in return but the pure joy of movement, the excitement of a new hard line, and the pleasure of being outdoors.
THE SUM OF IT ALL | By Brett Lowell
Greater Than (V10) is a sweet line up a steep piece of gneiss that holds a slew of interesting moves; there
are double hand jams, a high slab top out, and even a heel/toe cam above your head. The ground slopes away from the boulder at a similar but opposing
angle, giving the look of the greater than symbol when viewed in profile. My brother Josh established the line many years ago, back when I was too
intimidated to try hard moves way off the deck.
These days I travel a lot and film some of the world's top climbers, which can be inspirational, but mostly gives me a heightened sense of self-suckyness.
Although I consider climbing a personal pursuit of my own limits, it's impossible not to compare myself with my comrades. In truth, I sometimes find
it hard to remain psyched when my climbing partners — who climb five grades harder — warm up on my projects. This explains why the most memorable
moments in my 20-year climbing history have been bouldering on crisp fall days with my closest friends, battling to unlock the next move on a tall
and proud new line — when grades are irrelevant and all that matters is being the first to send . . . and not get hurt trying.
By Paul Jung
ego terrorist (V9), shown right, is just one of the many new lines located deep in the talus of the presumed
tapped-out Gunks. We must have walked by this giant boulder, which resembles a ship's prow, over and over again in our search for undone lines. After
a great session withfriends fromAlbany and the usual suspects (Salo and Keenan), I was lucky enough to nab the first ascent of this beautiful piece
of rock. Ego Terrorist has since become a classic. My friend Tommy Morrison,whomade the third ascent, said, Phenomenal line! Eyed by a local
prostitute and FA'd by a local Chinaman! in reference to Andy Salo and myself, respectively. He wasn't serious, it's just the way we all are — good
friends and jokers. We love climbing, and try not to take it too seriously.
The next new problem is Chaotic Stability (V10), not shown. This problem is on a huge boulder in the main area of the Gunks near the Boxcar boulder.
The funny thing is that for such an obvious line, no one really knows about it and on any given weekend hundreds of climbers walk right past it. Perhaps
its 20-foot height and jumbled talus landing is too intimidating for most.
The first time I tried Chaotic I got spanked. The landing is far from ideal, and to flatten it we wedged a few fallen tree limbs across the large
gaps. I spent several days working out the series of sidepulls, finger-friendly crimps and delicate foot positions, and the further I got, the more
obsessed I became. As a fulltime mechanic, I knew the possibility of a bone-crushing fall from the top crux moves was not an option and I constantly
rehearsed the sequence in my mind. On the day the moves finally came together all I needed were three pads and two spotters. Shortly after completing
the climb I realized obsession equals progression. Proper!
WHAT WINS THE RACE | By John Koots Kuphal
When I first saw Hawk Rock, whose resemblance to a bird of prey is remarkable, the entire boulder made my hands sweat. It stands out atop
a small hill in an open hemlock forest as a solitary glacial erratic composed of perfect Putnam County gneiss — cloistered in the Ninham Mountains
about an hour northeast of Manhattan. After I spotted its line of crimps, sidepulls and slopers on a huge bulging feature, my first thought upon seeing
the tallest arete on the boulder was, Wow, this is sweet. In reality, I had no clue.
The Turtle (V9), shown above, has its first and most committing crux move about 12 feet up off a comfy right-hand sidepull/pinch and a high smeary
left-foot jib, which allows you to reach up left to a gaston like a small hanging snaggletooth. The first time I committed to the gaston, the lower
half snapped off and I fell behind the pads, somehow landing feet first in the dirt like a cat thrown off a second-story deck. Lucky, and ever persistent,
I re-committed a few minutes later and found myself atop Hawk Rock.
The problem gets its name from the petroglyph of a turtle carved into the side of the boulder, and from the nature of the climb — the slow and steady
upward movement that contrasts with the huge flapping moves of an adjacent line, The Hawk (V9). Located deep in the New York woods, this climb
defines my favorite kind of bouldering — big blocks and no crowds.
FEAR & FOREBODING | By Tim Keenan
My friend Andrew Zalewski, a strong climber and buyer for the famed gear shop Rock and Snow in New Paltz,showed me this gorgeous line,
shown left, called Sex Bomb (V8), located in a secret area called Triple Right. He couldn't unlock the crux sequence, but after some collaborative
problem solving, the moves revealed themselves. A full body extension from an undercling leads to a bad right-hand sloper, where you had to readjust
and then gun for yet another bad sloper with your left hand. We worked the line for a while, taking successive burns — feet ripping off the wall,
big swinging falls, yearning for the first ascent.I eventually stuck the move, only to pull into a key rail filled with dirt that made it impassable.
Drew later returned for the first ascent and I came back shortly after, totally motivated to repeat this rad line. Located on a small cliff, Sex Bomb features bomber rock and wild dynamic movement up high — really, just another amazing problem I'm happy to have shared with a close friend.
When an experience is good, you want to repeat it. Andrew showed me another gleaming line up a rightward-leaning arete made of sharp silica conglomerate.
I was attracted to this problem for its height and dangerous crux above a backbreaking slab arete. After nailing the first crux, you have to match
hands on extended feet, and the possibility of a bad fall looms in the back of your head. Fortunately, knowing a good friend and great spotter has
your back gives you the confidence to overcome fear. Dark Foreboding Skies (V9) tops out at 23 feet on slopers that I had hoped would be jugs.
Full value!
INSPIRATION & AESTHETICS | By Andy Salo
High Price (V9) is on the Behemoth boulder on the Carriage Road at the Gunks and was an old project that had
previously been toproped by a strong local. With an atrocious landing and insecure moves, High Price was never seriously considered to be
a boulder problem.
Around the first anniversary of the death of my close climbing friend Josh Price, I made the first ropeless ascent of High Price — it felt like
soloing, and I kept that mentality until I topped out. I was extremely relieved to complete the problem but also felt a lingering emptiness. I wished
Josh had been present, because I'm sure he would've been proud.
Highball bouldering is a pursuit of aesthetics. I don't choose to climb dangerously or wish to get hurt, but the most inspiring lines tend to be dangerous.
I find that motivating. Most of the focus in the bouldering world is on big numbers and sheer difficulty. This one-dimensional outlook obscures some
of the better parts of the pursuit. Historically, bouldering incorporated elements of difficulty and danger, and the challenges associated with both
were equally valid. That isn't to suggest that danger needs to be sought out, but to point out that inspiration should remain the bottom line.
PROJECT FAILURE | By John Koots Kuphal
I feel like no one knows more about failing on projects than I do. Always ahead of my climbing ability, my friends have snaked practically
every line I've found in the past 10 years. I am now accustomed to the dull pain of watching someone else succeed first.
This process of failure is frustrating and inspiring. The inspiration comes from unlocking a sequence and the frustration comes from being too
burned out to complete it. Every day outside is special to me, and I try to make the most of it because I work two jobs and have a family. With only
a few hours to spend on myself every week, finding a project and sending it can become a multi-week affair. Right now I am trying to send this one
unnamed highball, shown left, with a dangerous stepped landing and a mono fingerlock crux. This may be irresponsible of me to admit, but the reason
I'm drawn to this project is the danger and the level of commitment. It may not be that scary to someone else, but because I broke my ankle six months
ago from a 15-foot fall, this climb signifies a major step toward overcoming my fear of injury.
The mono crux is the antithesis of my strengths, too. Give me a nice juicy pinch and I'm a pig in shit. The crux moves are right above a ledge and I wonder
if I'm ready to suffer the consequences. I have set a simulation of the problem at the Cliffs in Valhalla in order to train … hopefully I'll SEND!
BLADE SLAYER | By Ivan Greene
Finally, on a perfect fall day, Andy Salo took me out to Triple Right in the Gunks and showed me the goods. He and
the crew had been sneaking around for awhile sending gems without me. Having just recovered from a broken heel, I wasn't really in shape for highball
bouldering, but after doing a few amazing lines I decided to explore. I immediately stumbled upon this overhanging blade (shown upper left) that soared
up from the ground. Upon closer inspection, I found that sculpted crimps and a maze of quartzite pebbles led to a sloping rail on top. A fall from
there seemed deadly, and apparently I was not alone since the striking problem had not been climbed.
The following week, I returned and headed straight to the blade, no warming up. As I scrubbed the holds, I only became more confused about the proper sequence.
As with most first ascents, the only solution is to step up and simply experience the movement — hesitation, second-guessing or theorizing have little
use; just action.
I crimped, heel hooked, smeared, screamed and threw a little higher with each attempt. The crux would require leaving the security of the blade and trending
right toward the sloping rail. On one of my final attempts, I made it to the rail and prepared for the launch to the lip. I took flight, missed, and
screamed down onto the talus. No broken heels, ankles, cracked skull, nada. Other than the nervous trembling, I was intact. Immediately, with
a head full of I'm gonna fucking do this, I got back on and made it back to the sloping rail again, dug my feet into the little crystals andWhapp! I stuck the top ofSteppin' Razor (V10/11).I love this shit!
BACKYARD PLAYGROUND | By Josh Lowell
This boulder is about 15 minutes from my house, and five minutes from a small crag where I learned to climb 20 years ago. A lot has changed
since the days of toproping 5.10s after school. I have a family, a mortgage, a career and a long list of accumulated injuries. But the joy of cl mbing
at my limit is as strong as ever. I've climbed all over the world, but The Godfather (V11) brought me full circle, back to where it all began
for one of my most memorable ascents.
Ten intricate crimp moves bring you to a big, scary dyno. The landing is flat, but the intimidation factor is high, especially for me because I am not
brave. I've spent too much time on the disabled list to risk another sprained ankle or worse, so I usually pass on the truly scary problems, and watch
John, Ivan or Andy scream and flail over the talus. In this case I built my confidence gradually over a series of short sessions — a couple of hours
here and there between work, with my daughter Sierra crawling around the base — until the nervousness was replaced by a sense of trust that I wouldn't
spaz out and fly off the move in some uncontrolled death spiral. For me it's never about danger, but purity of movement and line. It just so happens
that the best lines are sometimes the biggest.
IN THE MOMENT | By Andy Salo
I was immediately drawn to Ideas are Bulletproof (V11), which is also in the Gunks, due to its imposing presence and striking
45-degree arete. It hangs atop a large pile of talus below a gorgeous section of cliff. The combination of height, bad landing and difficulty made
the problem seem like too much — another level. However, I always kept the line in the back of my mind because I knew it would one day become a boulder
problem. The day I got the opportunity to attempt the line, it came alive — with every burn my obsession grew until I simply had to climb it or get
hurt trying. The falls were unpredictable and would send me in any dire tion because the moves were oppositional on non-positive holds. The moves were
difficult enough to demand a lot of attention and it was easy to lose focus on the danger in order to send. Once the moves were completed, however,
I felt as though I'd dodged a bullet. It's the same sort of feeling you get when you narrowly avoid a car accident, only in highball bouldering, it
makes you come back for more.
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The remains of the extinct relative of the elephant turned up during a July pickup in Grand Rapids, a local newspaper reported. The tooth pieces and tusk are estimated to be anywhere from 12,000 to 15,000 years old. The Christian charity, called In The Image, turned the find over to the Grand Rapids Public Museum, which is adding them to its collection.
"I'd love to find out where this was from and the history behind it," said Jay Starkey, the charity's director.
The tooth is broken into two parts and is covered in lacquer. A tusk, also covered in lacquer, is hollow at one end and also may be from a mastodon.
The animals roamed North America more than 10,000 years ago, and their remains turn up from time to time in Michigan - usually buried underground. The museum already has a number of mastodon bones and the new additions will be available for loan to educators for use as a learning tool in schools.
"This is kind of an oddball way for something to come in," said Tim Priest, collections manager.
For the charity, the discovery is one of many odd donations to come in. Drugs are a common find, Starkey said. It once got a painting worth about $5,000 that ended up being donated to the museum. And it also has received an urn with someone's ashes inside.


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Sam Sommers has yet another terrific post, this one titled "When Justice is Less than Blind," over on the Psychology Today Blog. Here are some excerpts.
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At the time of the 2000 Census, Jefferson Parish had an African-American population of 23%. In 1990 that rate was 18%. These numbers render it all the more striking that in the preceding two decades, Jefferson Parish has had 18 murder trials that ended with a conviction and death sentence, and of the 216 jurors who heard these cases, only 9 were Black. Seven of the 18 juries had but a single Black juror. Ten juries had no Black jurors at all. (Quick note of full disclosure: there were 2 additional trials ending with a death sentence during this time, but the racial demographics of those juries were not available to the researchers analyzing the data.)
If you do the math, this means that 4% of the jurors on capital murder trials in Jefferson Parish over the past two decades have been Black, a rate far lower than the 18-23% of African-Americans found in the population at large. In fact, the population rate suggests that a racially representative jury in Jefferson Parish would have 2 or 3 Black jurors, but during this time period, only 1 of the capital murder juries had as many as 2 Black members.
What explains the statistical aberration that is the racial makeup of Jefferson Parish capital juries? There are a number of factors that can contribute to nonrepresentative juries anywhere. In the U.S. (as well as other countries that use jury trials, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), racial minorities tend to be underrepresented on voter rolls, driver's license lists, and other public records often used to compile source lists for jury duty. In addition, once jury duty summonses are sent out, non-Whites are less likely to report as requested than are White Americans. Some have speculated that this disparity reflects institutional mistrust of the legal system among many Black Americans, but it unquestionably reflects the fact that a disproportionately high rate of summonses sent to Blacks are returned by the post office to the courthouse as undeliverable.
However, those who have catalogued and analyzed the Jefferson Parish cases point to a different explanation for what has happened there, namely that local prosecutors have systematically gone out of their way to exclude Black citizens from serving as jurors in these trials. How would prosecutors do this? In large part by making use of a jury selection practice known as the peremptory challenge.
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. . . [I]n 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for attorneys to base their peremptory challenges on a prospective juror's race (Batson v. Kentucky). Several years later, the prohibition was extended to prohibit gender-based peremptories as well. In both cases, the basis for the ruling was that such peremptory challenges violated the rights of all citizens, regardless of race or gender, to serve as jurors.
So what's going on in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana? The 18 murder trials I described above all happened after the Supreme Court's ruling in Batson. If the Court ruled that attorneys cannot base peremptories on juror race, why is it that only 4% of jurors on these capital murder trials have been Black? Well, it turns out that it's just too easy for attorneys to get around the Batson ruling. As long as they're able to provide the judge with a reasonable race-neutral explanation for their peremptory use, they won't be found in violation of the rules. And if there's one thing we know from psychological research on judgment and decision-making, it's that people are remarkably good at coming up with plausibly neutral explanations for potentially biased choices.
Indeed, I and a colleague, Mike Norton of Harvard, conducted an experiment that illustrated this process in a jury selection setting. We asked college students, law students, and trial attorneys to make judgments in a jury selection simulation involving the trial of a Black defendant. We presented them with two prospective jurors, A and B, and asked participants to assume the role of prosecutor in the case. When photos revealed that Juror A was Black and Juror B was White, participants were more likely to use a peremptory challenge to remove A. But when we kept the information about Jurors A and B the same and simply switched their photos, suddenly B, now the Black juror, was more likely to be challenged. In other words, regardless of the personal and ideological information provided for each prospective juror, participants were basing their challenge decisions on race. And when we asked participants to justify their peremptories? They never talked about race, instead inflating the importance of race-neutral information that supported their challenge, in true top-down fashion.
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We all dream of winning the lottery. That desire to hit the jackpot has spawned an entire industry of lottery gurus who offer the supposed winning formula. Unfortunately these tips and tricks are broadly useless and do nothing to help your game. Deep down every lottery player knows that you can't predict the numbers.
On the other hand there are a handful of tips that can maximize your chances and your payout.
- Pick rare numbers: Lucky 7s and 3s. Most players pick the same set of numbers which means that they're more likely to be forced to share the jackpot. If you pick unpopular or supposedly "unlucky" numbers you increase the likelihood that you'll take home the entire jackpot.
- Make a lottery pool: Joining a pool is a great way to inject more fun into the lottery process whilst simultaneously increasing your chances of winning. Every player agrees to split the jackpot in the event that they win, hugely increasing your chances.
- Pick the best odds: Different lotteries use different rules. Make sure to pick the lotteries that give you the best risk-reward ratio. Fixed-odds lotteries are tempting but keep in mind that you will often be forced to split the jackpot if you do win. Scratch games make an interesting alternative with high chances of winning, albeit at slightly lower payouts.
- Use your second chance: Many lotteries opt to give their players a second chance. Simply fill out the form on the back of your second chance card and put it in the post. This doubles your odds at no extra cost.
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- Talk about odds: in 2010, the Israel lottery drew the same six numbers it did three weeks earlier.
The likelihood of this happening are roughly one in four trillion.
- "I wish I'd torn that ticket up." This quote is attributed to Andrew "Jack" Whittaker who won $315 million at the Powerball jackpot in 2012. First, Mr. Whittaker was robbed and sued, then both his daughter and granddaughter died.
- 70%: the percentage of lottery winners who either lose all of their winnings or spend them all within seven years.
- 44, 38, and 40 represent the most commonly drawn numbers in the lottery.
- $584,402,676: the amount you would need to spend on buying lottery tickets if you wanted to play every possible combination of a $2 ticket and be guaranteed to win.
- 1-in-292,201,338: the probability of winning if you purchased thousands of tickets as the probability does not increase with further draws.
- 44 states: the number of US states that participate in the lottery. Six states have opted out: Utah, Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, Hawaii, and Nevada. Nevada does not participate because the state already benefits from gambling profits.
- $1.5 billion (January 2016): the largest jackpot in U.S. history The winning tickets were sold in California, Texas, and Florida.
A-list actors, comedians and other celebrities routinely poke fun at the lottery or make remarks that stress its importance in our culture. A couple of examples:
"A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket." (Chris Pratt)
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" (Jay Leno)


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Will Global Warming Rekindle HERS?
Home energy rating programs aren't booming, but they are slowly--very slowly--taking root in both North America and Europe. The birthing process has proven to be much longer and more painful than most people expected. Despite efforts in several countries, these programs have influenced only a tiny, if not insignificant, fraction of home sales. The important thing is that home energy ratings are still around, having survived both falling energy prices and a general dwindling of public interest in energy efficiency.
The collection of articles in this issue about the United States' Home Energy Rating Systems (HERS) program, and its counterparts in other countries, shows that these rating systems are far from dead. And some of the major weaknesses of these systems may be heading toward resolution and improvement.
First, there's movement again toward source-energy accounting, which is actually another way of saying that the ratings are based on energy costs rather than on an unrealistic equating of electrical and fuel energy (see Gas vs. Electric: An Equal Playing Field at Hand?). This isn't difficult to accomplish--California has done it for years--but the United States as a whole lacked the political will to accomplish it. Now this country's Kyoto climate change obligations are influencing the debate, because the administration is looking for cheap ways to reduce CO2 emissions. Also, an influential gas lobby is pushing hard, and a less unified, deregulated electric industry is not resisting as much as in the past.
We have sometimes expressed skepticism about the accuracy of home energy ratings in the pages of Home Energy, but a little experiment performed by Jim Cavallo (see HERS Experiment Cause for Confidence) has demonstrated that such fears are perhaps overstated. Cavallo asked several raters to rate the same house. He found that, while the ratings differed (although not dramatically), the list of recommended measures--the second half of a good HERS--was very consistant. The experiment needs to be repeated with a larger sample, both theoretically and in actual practice, before we can rely on this conclusion, but it suggests that we might be able to live with a surprising degree of imprecision.
In order for HERS to succeed, consumers must be convinced that the additional cost of a rating is more than offset by the benefits that it brings. Can this happen? An article by Greg Thomas (see Home Ratings Sweep the Nation--Almost) outlines where that added value will come from. These additional benefits may tip the balance in favor of HERS--if the HERS industry can create the necessary linkages to the contractors, mortgage lenders, utilities, insurance providers, and other institutions who stand to benefit.
As discussed in European Union not Unified on Home Ratings, the Europeans are also moving toward wider use of energy ratings, but with each country employing a different approach (and achieving a different level of success). Here, too, global-warming obligations are one reason for the widespread push. The U.K. appears to be further along than the United States in rating new houses, but other countries are still trying to devise workable systems. People in Europe also realize that increasing the percentage of energy-efficient homes is one of the cheapest ways to reduce CO2 emissions.
HERS is a great idea, and its advocates are gradually gathering more strength. Now, with global climate change getting more attention, efficient houses seem particularly sensible.
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Relaxation Techniques for Children With Serious Illness
Managing Stress
Nothing about serious illness is easy, but one of the hardest things for parents may be watching their child struggle with pain, stress, and anxiety.
Despite what we may sometimes tell ourselves, stress is not just "in our heads." The stress response — also called the flight-or-fight response — causes a rush of adrenaline and other hormones that trigger physical changes in the body: your heart races, your blood pressure rises, you breathe faster, your digestion slows, and your pupils dilate. Chronic stress takes a toll on the body as well as the mind.
The good news is that using a variety of mind-body relaxation techniques can help short-circuit the flight-or-fight response. Relaxation techniques not only can lessen a child's physical symptoms, they can also help him or her (and you!) regain a sense of control and confidence over a situation, helping everyone find moments of peace amid the chaos and isolation of illness and medical treatment.
Techniques That Can Help
These techniques are designed for parents and kids to practice together. Most can be done in a few minutes wherever you are, whether that's a quiet place or a crowded hospital, without any special tools.
However, it's important to note that these techniques should be used as a complement to conventional medical treatment for anxiety and pain, and not as a replacement — doing so could do a child more harm than good.
If your child is suffering from anxiety or pain, ask your doctor what can be done to help. And always check with your health care team to make sure that your child's symptoms are related to stress and not a different medical problem.
Focused Breathing
Pain and stress can leave a child breathing faster and shallower, or even holding his or her breath — all of which can actually keep the stress response going and heighten the intensity of pain. Paying attention to breathing can help calm the mind.
Try this exercise with your child:
- Step 1. Sit or lie comfortably and put one hand on your stomach, the other on your chest.
- Step 2. Close your eyes and try to relax all of your muscles, one by one, from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. Don't forget to relax the muscles in your face, neck, and jaw; you may be storing a lot of tension there.
- Step 3. Breathe deeply and regularly for several minutes— and try to make your stomach (abdomen) rise and fall, not only your chest. This will help you deepen your breath.
- Step 4. Pay attention to each breath; try to turn all your thoughts to each inhale … exhale. As you breathe out, imagine the tension leaving your body with the breath.
At first, it may be difficult for you and your child to focus on breathing. Distracting thoughts are normal — but rather than following a thought and letting it consume you, try to let it drift out of your mind, like a balloon.
Relaxation Response Method
This technique asks a person to focus on breathing and quiet the mind to create a sense of calmness and well-being. And by repeating a word, phrase, or prayer during the exercise, the mind is able to stay focused more easily. When practicing this, it's normal for thoughts to pop into the mind. Tell your child to disregard them and just focus on the word or phrase he or she is repeating.
Resembling an Eastern form of meditation, this technique — called the relaxation response — was popularized and put into Western practice in the 1970s by Herbert Benson, MD. To elicit the relaxation response, follow Steps 1-4, and then:
- Step 5. Pick a focus word, phrase, sound, or prayer such as "om," "one," or "peace."
- Step 6. As you breathe, say the focus word silently to yourself as you exhale.
- Step 7. Continue for 5 or 10 minutes, ideally building up to 10 to 20 minutes for each session.
- Step 8. When you're finished, do not stand up immediately. Continue sitting quietly for a bit, letting other thoughts back into your mind. Open your eyes, but stay sitting for another minute before getting up.
When practicing, go at your own pace. Don't feel like you have to achieve a deep level of relaxation right away. Often, feelings of calmness and well-being are felt later on or at times of crisis.
To achieve ongoing results, try to practice the technique with your child once or twice daily, but not within 2 hours after eating, as digestion can interfere with the relaxation response. Some people find that the best time to meditate is first thing in the morning, before breakfast.
Guided Imagery
A growing body of medical research suggests that imagery also can help lessen pain and anxiety, and promote positive feelings. In fact, studies have found that people who practice guided imagery during chemotherapy feel more relaxed and positive about their chemo experience than those who don't use the technique.
Guided imagery (also called "visualization") often works best when a person starts with a few minutes of focused breathing. Here's how it works: With eyes closed, imagine a safe place or a location you once visited that brought a feeling of contentment and joy. Hold on to the image of that place for a while, trying to picture all the sights and sounds:
- What does the ground beneath you feel like? Is it weather warm or a chilly? Is there a breeze?
- Are there any animal noises in the distance, or nature sounds (like running water) that you could hear?
Getting as descriptive as possible about this safe place will help you and your child get "into" the moment and feel relaxed.
Some children find this exercise more helpful when they are "guided" by a parent, another live instructor, or with a guided imagery CD or DVD.
As with meditation, distracting thoughts will float into the mind as you practice guided imagery. Acknowledge these thoughts, and then let them drift away while you move your attention back to the images in your mind and sounds you hear.
Music Therapy
Just as pleasant images can calm the mind and soothe the body, so can music. Kids who undergo music therapy — the research-based use of music to lift moods and promote mental and physical well-being — have been found to have lowered heart rates and blood pressure, and improved anxiety.
Many hospitals provide a licensed, trained music therapist who can work individually with kids to develop a customized treatment plan that engages them in:
- active play that includes listening to music
- dancing or moving the body to music
- playing instruments or improvising on them
- singing along
To participate in music therapy, your child doesn't need to read music or have any special musical talents. And the best part is that you can practice music therapy at home. By choosing music that both you and your child enjoy — and setting aside time to listen, dance, sing, or experiment with an instrument together — you, too, can teach your child the joys of music.
Energy Therapy
Energy therapy is based on the understanding that there are electrical currents in all living organisms. This produces magnetic energy fields that extend around and beyond the body, just like the Earth's electromagnetic field. Proponents of this therapy believe that gentle, light touch or above-the-body hand movements can redirect energy to places where it's needed in an effort to bring the body into "balance" or harmony.
Energy therapy continues to be scientifically explored and, and findings note that it promotes healing as it helps kids feel more relaxed, less anxious, and less bothered by pain. It also empowers them to feel like they are in control and can do something to help themselves feel better.
Many different types of energy therapy are practiced all over the world, including Healing Touch, therapeutic touch, Reiki and Johrei (from Japan), and Qi gong (from China).
In the United States, many hospitals offer Healing Touch as a complement to standard treatments for anxiety, pain, or other medical problems, meaning that they are used with the therapies and/or medications that the medical teams order.
And some nurses, doctors, or other health care providers are certified in Healing Touch techniques through a required national certification examination. Healing Touch is the only energy therapy with this requirement. They may be able to offer this service to your child, and can teach you how to practice Healing Touch at home.
Massage Therapy
If you like to take a more hands-on approach to soothing and comforting your child, you might prefer massage. The benefits of massage are well known, offering muscle relaxation and increased blood flow and oxygen to body parts to help alleviate stress and ease pain.
But some types of massage are not recommended for certain types of conditions, so check with your doctor first before massaging your child or taking your child to a massage therapist.
The most common forms of massage used in complementary medicine include:
- Swedish massage. Therapists use their hands to move muscles and joints with long, gliding strokes, tapping movements, friction (made by moving hands quickly) and kneading. Massage oils may be used, so be sure to tell the therapist about any allergies or sensitivities to ingredients that your child may have.
- Deep-tissue massage. Many of the same techniques are used as in Swedish massage, only therapists apply more pressure to specific areas, concentrating on the deeper layers of muscles and connective tissue.
- Trigger-point massage. Like deep-tissue massage, this technique massages deeper layers of tissue, focusing on what therapists call trigger points ("knots") within the connective tissue or muscles that are usually painful when pressed.
Many hospitals have massage therapists on hand to offer massages to both patients and their family members, so find out if massage therapy is offered at your hospital.
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These are just a few of the many methods designed to help patients and families cope with pain and anxiety. Many people find that yoga, stretching, or light, gentle exercise also helps to quiet the mind and soothe the body.
To learn more about relaxation techniques, talk to your child's health care team.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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Dimensions: 24 5/8 × 58 11/16 in. (62.5 × 149 cm) support: 67 1/4 x 33 1/4 in. (170.8 x 84.5 cm)
Accession Number: 38.121
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Catalogue Description: Mantle with ninety individual, colorful figures decorating the border. The interior cloth is simple, fragmented, and possibly of an earlier date. Cross-loop stitch flowers join the border to the central cloth. Although the mantle was found at the Paracas Necropolis and has been known as "The Paracas Textile" since it was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum in 1938, the cross-knit looping of the border figures is a typical Nasca 2 technique. The mantle is therefore now considered to be the work of Nasca artists, who were contemporaneous with the Paracas people. Some scholars also believe that the central cloth dates from an earlier period and may have come from the Ica Valley where objects with similar "Oculate Being" imagery have been found. The textile is about two thousand years old. That it survived over time is due to the dry desert climate of the South Coast of Peru where it was discovered. In spite of its fragile condition, it is one of the most important textiles in the world because of its complexity and mysterious imagery. Its fragile nature demands low levels of light, an environment free from vibrations, and a case to protect it from dust and moisture. Excerpted information from a brochure published by the Brooklyn Museum in 1991: Ninety separate figures stand around the border as if in a formal procession. About thirty figures are unique; others fall into groups that share similar costumes, coloring, body postures, and positions. No single figure stands out clearly from the rest, and no overall sequence has yet been deciphered. The back of the border is a mirror image of the front, except for three figures that have a front and a back. All of the figures are represented from multiple viewpoints and each individual body part is treated separately in a standardized way: faces are always seen full-face, feet in profile, and so on. The designs in both the center and border of the textile are organized around the lines of an imaginary cross passing through the center. It divides the faces in the central cloth into two groups, and the border figures into four, each of which point their feet in a different direction. Some figures seem to be mythological and have unnatural characteristics such as appendages sometimes called "streamers" or "signifiers," which usually extend from mouths or clothing. Streamers do not correspond to a known object and may represent some abstract force of energy. Some human figures wear very elaborate costumes. As in many societies, costumed priests may have acted as interpreters and mediators between the natural and supernatural worlds. The costumed figures may also represent an intermediate stage in the transformation from real living person to spirit. Since Paracas and Nasca textiles were used as funeral wrappings, it would be appropriate for their designs to reflect such a transformation. Three of the figures are thought to be women because of the longer dress-type clothing; the head is bent backwards and the arms are raised. In keeping with the agricultural theme of the border, two types of plants sprout from these three female figures. Other border figures hold or display disembodied heads and small doll-like objects that scholars call "trophy heads" and "effigy figures." These seem to be related to ritual sacrifices connected with a religious cult that spread through the South Coast at this time. Bodiless heads and sacrificial victims are found in burials, and images of sacrifice occur throughout Paracas and Nasca art. Trophy heads on the border often appear to germinate like seeds, sprouting plants and animals, suggesting interconnected cycles of birth and death. About one-third of the border figures have some type of feline motif. The larger "Pampas cat" portrayed is a small wild cat called Felis colocolo, which is still found in the South Coast area. The regalia portrayed correspond to rich, beautifully crafted items known from Paracas mummy bundles. Forehead ornaments, hair bangles, and mouth masks such as those shown were made from thin sheets of gold. Llamas were the only beasts of burden used in the Andes in pre-Columbian times. They carried products between the vastly different ecological zones at different altitudes. The llamas portrayed (although one is much deteriorated) each carry a leafy branch with fruit; their backs are decorated with beans, flowers, a chili pepper, and other vegetables. Llamas continue to have both practical and symbolic importance in the Andes. Three border figures wear what appears to be a fox skin. These skins have been found in many mummy bundles. In Inca times (1470-1532) fox skins were a special badge worn by men who had specific community duties related to agriculture. Since these figures all wear a headdress decorated with a leafy branch, they may have held a similar office. There are distinctions between figures that might indicate the presence of more than one artist. Two of the fox-skin wearers are almost identical: but a third is slightly larger and different in its detailing. One of the only three figures on the border with a front and a back appears in a costume with a bird wing worn over one shoulder. One of the Paracas mummy bundles included just such a costume -- a feathered, wing-like cape. The central figure in a trio found at one end of the textile has a long streamer extending from his mouth and ending in a cat; another mouth streamer has been lost. The borders on his ankle-length garment and all of his streamers have intricate repeating motifs that are similar to the embroidered designs found on numerous Paracas Necropolis textiles. Many of the tongue streamers on the border are decorated with the same colors, patterns, or edgings as those that appear on garments. This may suggest some correspondence between textiles and language. Textiles still reflect a medium of communication in the Andes. Family and village designs on textiles are representative of social identity and help maintain inherited information, connecting past, present, and future generations. Agriculture was well established on the South Coast by Paracas and Nasca times and a wide variety of plants are represented in the border design, including root vegetables, fruits, beans, and yucca and flowering species. Some scholars feel this textile is a type of calendar, especially because so many different types of flora and fauna are represented, but none have definitively been able to decode the imagery. Comments by Isabel Iriarte, Curator of Collections, Archaeological Textiles, Museo Ethografico "Juan B. Ambrosetti," University of Buenos Aires, March, 2004: The figure of a "woman" appears three times, figure number 88 on the short end, number 73, and also as number 67. Each character by her side is different. She is carrying what seems to be, according to the limpness of the body, a dead person, however, the figure holds a tumi. This is thought to be a woman because of the longer dress-type of clothing she is wearing; her head is bent backwards and her arms are raised. From "Textiles of ancient Peru and their techniques" by Raoul d'Harcourt, Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 1962 [1934]: In keeping with the agricultural theme of the border, two types of plants sprout from the figure. On figure 88 one can see the tuber, and on each of the three figures it is possible to discern the plant extending down the side of the figure, possibly a camote or sweet potato plant.


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Biffle wins at Michigan; Bowyer takes seventh
Biffle's wiin is 1,000 for Ford Motor Company
BROOKLYN, Mich. — Greg Biffle gave Ford a milestone victory — right down the road from company headquarters.
Biffle raced to his second straight Sprint Cup win at Michigan International Speedway, easily holding off Kevin Harvick after points leader Jimmie Johnson smacked the wall in the final laps Sunday. It was the 1,000th victory for Ford Motor Company across NASCAR's three national series — Cup, Nationwide and Truck.
"What a great moment this is," said Jamie Allison, director of Ford Racing. "We couldn't be prouder to have this moment come here today at Michigan in front of so many of our Ford friends. What a great race and a great day for Ford."
It was Biffle's first win since he overtook Johnson to win at MIS in August. Johnson's engine faltered with six laps left in that race. This time, he was about a second behind Biffle with three laps to go — but a tire give way, and he dropped all the way to 28th.
"I don't want to see anybody wreck," Biffle said. "It makes you feel good when you push the guy over the edge. He made a mistake, and that's what makes you feel good. You outsmarted him, or you beat him at his game."
Harvick was second, 3 seconds behind Biffle. Martin Truex Jr. was next, followed by Kyle Busch and Tony Stewart.
Emporia native Clint Bowyer placed seventh, earning 37 points and $131,943.
Johnson wasn't the only big name who ran into trouble. Jeff Gordon was out of contention almost immediately when he hit a spinning Bobby Labonte less than 10 laps into the 200-lap, 400-mile race. Gordon finished 39th, one spot behind Kasey Kahne, who led at the halfway point but appeared to blow a tire and went sliding into the wall.
Kahne's car caught fire, but he was able to climb out quickly.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., who won at MIS last June, finished 37th Sunday. He led for 34 laps, but his engine acted up about two-thirds of the way through the race.
There were eight cautions for 38 laps.
Biffle cruised to the finish in his No. 16 Ford. He finished second to Johnson the previous weekend at Pocono, but this time there was nobody left to challenge him at the end.
It was Ford's third Cup victory of the year — Carl Edwards and David Ragan won at Phoenix and Talladega. Sunday was Ford Motor Company's 110th birthday.
"There have been a lot of great teams and a lot of great drivers, a lot of great engine builders that have contributed to Ford's success," Roush Fenway Racing owner Jack Roush said. "I'm just proud and honored to be part of that."
This was the second Cup win of the year for Roush Fenway.
It's been an emotional week for the racing community after the death of driver Jason Leffler on Wednesday at a dirt-track race in New Jersey. Biffle was quick to acknowledge Leffler while he celebrated his Father's Day victory.
"We are thinking about little Charlie Leffler that doesn't have a father today," he said.
Biffle earned his 19th career victory and boosted his chances to reach the Chase for the Sprint Cup, moving from 10th to eighth in the standings. Biffle finished in the top 10 for the 13th time in 21 races at MIS, which is about 60 miles from Ford headquarters in Dearborn.
Edwards finished eighth. Kurt Busch qualified second but went into an early spin and finished 35th.
Johnson still has a comfortable lead in standings, although Edwards closed the gap at the top from 51 points to 31. Johnson had a chance at his fourth victory of the year before scraping the wall late. Bowyer is in third in points, 49 points back of Johnson.
Johnson has still never won a Cup race at MIS.
"I thought this would be the year," he said. "Most of the time we're leading and something happens, but I thought, 'OK, maybe coming from behind would be the difference.' But something happened."
Johnson's late mishap in his No. 48 Chevrolet did not result in a caution, so Biffle maintained his comfortable lead over Harvick.
"I wasn't catching the 16 and didn't really feel it necessary to have a tire failure or an issue at that particular point," Harvick said. "So our best bet at that point was the 48 catches the 16 and something happening as those two guys were racing. But we just maintained and managed our gap between us and (Truex) to just hold that track position and not have anything silly happen."
Harvick moved up one spot to fourth in the standings. Earnhardt fell from fourth to seventh.


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At home in Melbourne, Matt Trollope is keeping tabs on the ladies of Istanbul.
Day one stat of the day: Sam Stosur entered her first round-robin match against Maria Sharapova sporting a dismal 0-9 win-loss record against the Russian. She hadn't even won a set against Sharapova in more than six years. But in a monumental upset, the Aussie triumphed, 6-1, 7-5. "You never want to lose to someone ten times in a row," Stosur said after the match. You can say that again Sam. But understatements aside, kudos must go to Stosur for approaching the match differently compared to ones against Sharapova in the past: She mixed up her shots well including judicious use of her slice backhand and exploited the Russian's rust from not having played a match in almost a month.
Typical WTA moment: Petra Kvitova's performance against Vera Zvonareva was emblematic of the inconsistency that rules the modern WTA Tour. Kvitova started out nervously in her first-ever appearance at the Championships, spraying the ball everywhere but on court before she then went on a tear to win seven of eight games to lead 6-2, 4-1. Then came the inevitable nervousness and collapse, with more errors allowing Zvonareva to level at 4-4. But instead of capitalising on her momentum, Zvonereva's own errors allowed the Czech to take the next two games and the match.
Pleasant surprise: The venue. After three listless years at the perennially-empty Khalifa Tennis Complex in Doha, the move to the glittering Sinam Erdem Stadium in Istanbul has breathed life back into the WTA Championships. While I'm yet to decide if I like the unusual colour-scheme adopted for the court, the fact that the spectators remain in darkness while the court is spotlighted (like the ATP World Tour Finals in London) gives the tournament a "main-event" feel. And with more than 10,000 spectators attending the first session and the final three days of the event reportedly sold out, it's just what the event desperately needed to retain its status as the unoffical "fifth major".
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New Study Looks at the Roots of Empathy
Posted by The Situationist Staff on June 30, 2007
It's a common experience. You're watching a movie where the main character is in a fight, or falls from a great height, or suffers a knife wound. Even if you've never experienced the exact method of injury, you flinch and even feel, to some extent, the pain that you imagine them to be feeling. Alternatively, the dorky hero is finally about to get that first kiss from the head cheerleader; our hearts race and a smile crosses our faces. Of course, physical and emotional empathy are an important means by which people relate to one another — feel each other's pain or share one another's joy. Still, no one would claim that they experience the same level of suffering or happiness as those that they witness. Exactly how we feel empathy and how much are questions that neuropsychologists are only beginning to try to answer.
Recent research led by Dr. Jaime Ward and Michael Banissy at the University College London have looked at what they term 'mirror-touch' synesthetes, people who experience physical touches they witness on others (which to some degree may be most of us). These new experiments might help illuminate how we experience empathy. A story by Reuters reporter Julie Steenhuysen is excerpted below.
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Study May Explain Roots of Empathy
When people say "I feel your pain," they do not mean it literally, but certain people really do feel something that appears to be an extreme form of empathy, British researchers said on Sunday.
They said watching someone being touched triggers the same part of the brain as actual touch, and this connection helps explain how we understand what other people are feeling.
People who experience a tactile sense of touch when they see another person being touched — something called mirror-touch synesthesia — was first studied in 2005 in one person.
But researchers at University College London have now studied 10 people with the same condition.
"It suggests there is a link between certain aspects of the tactile system and empathy," said Michael Banissy of the university's department of psychology, whose work appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Banissy and colleagues first did a series of experiments to authenticate peoples' claims that they felt something when they saw someone else being touched.
They asked the 10 people with mirror-touch synesthesia to identify when they were being touched on their own body while watching someone else being touched on the cheek.
The actual touch was sometimes in the same spot as the person they watched being touched, and sometimes it was on the other side.
"The idea was to see whether synesthetic and actual touch were confusable in any way," Banissy said in a telephone interview.
He said people with this mirror-touch capability were faster when the touch they saw was in the same location as actual touch.
"When actual touch and synesthetic touch were in different locations, sometimes they would confuse the two and report they were touched on both cheeks," he said.
This confusion did not occur in 20 people without synesthesia who performed the same experiments.
The mirror-touch people also scored higher than others on a questionnaire that measured empathy.
"We often flinch when we see someone knock their arm, and this may be a weaker version of what these synesthetes experience," Dr. Jamie Ward, who led the research team, said in a statement.
Other studies have suggested a link between empathy and mirror systems, but Ward said this was the first to suggest empathy involves more than one mechanism: an emotional gut reaction — which appears exaggerated in the mirror-touch synesthetes — and a cognitive process that involves thinking about how someone else feels.
"This appears to be the emotional component of empathy," Banissy said. "It was purely gut instinct."
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The researchers are studying this empathy connection further and trying to determine how prevalent mirror-touch synesthesia is.
"It does appear to be more common than we first thought," Banissy said.
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For other worthwhile summaries of the research, go to Wired Science, or Neurophilosophy, or LiveScience.
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Mr Kurnels said
Well, this is actually true! And it's fascinating! Just the other time me and my family were watching some horror movies, then finally ended our evening with Tyler Perry's. You know what happens when you watch these films with happy endings… So this is actually true and I do strongly agree with the mirror-touch synesthesia….
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Index Block Dumps and Index Tree Dumps Part I: (Knock On Wood) February 8, 2010Posted by Richard Foote in Block Dumps, Index Internals, Oracle Indexes, Tree Dumps.
I thought before I jump into a topic that requires looking at a number of index block dumps, it might be worth briefly recapping how one goes about dumping index blocks in Oracle.
A block dump is simply a formatted representation of the contents of a particular Oracle database block. Although I'll be focusing specifically on index related blocks, any Oracle data block type can potentially be dumped and investigated.
The basic command to dump a specific block is:
where the block 42 in datafile 5 is dumped.
To dump a number of consecutive blocks with the one command you can also:
The resultant representation of the dumped block(s) are written to a trace file in the user_dump_dest directory.
Although these commands are not in the official Oracle documentation (the last time I had a real good look, it was only briefly mentioned in the Database Vault Administration Guide) and are not officially supported, there are enough references in Metalink/MOS and various writings for these commands to be widely known and used. I've been dumping the contents of Oracle blocks since the mid 1990's and although they can sometimes take some time to decipher, I find them a vital source of information on determining how Oracle actually works under the covers.
From an index perspective, the question is how can one figure which specific blocks to dump for a given index. There are a couple of useful little tips.
The first thing to point out with an index is that the critical Root Block of an index is always the block after the index segment header. This is always the case regardless of the database version, platform or type of tablespace. I've discussed how the index root block is always the block after the index segment header in this earlier post:
Therefore, to start exploring a specific index, we first find the root block details after the index segment header:
SQL> SELECT header_file, header_block+1 FROM dba_segments WHERE segment_name='BOWIE_I'; HEADER_FILE HEADER_BLOCK+1 ----------- -------------- 7 219274
The following command will then dump the associated index root block:
SQL> ALTER SYSTEM DUMP DATAFILE 7 BLOCK 219274; System altered.
As we'll see in a later post, from the dump of the index root block, we can then find what other index blocks the root block points to and references.
However, another useful method of determining which index blocks might be worth dumping is to do a "treedump" of an index.
One first needs to find the object_id of the index in question:
SQL> SELECT object_id FROM dba_objects WHERE object_name = 'BOWIE_I'; OBJECT_ID ---------- 106315
To then do a treedump of the index:
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS 'immediate trace name treedump level 106315'; Session altered.
where level 106315 is the object_id of the index.
A partial listing from a treedump follows:
branch: 0x1c3588a 29579402 (0: nrow: 222, level: 1)
leaf: 0x1c3588b 29579403 (-1: nrow: 485 rrow: 485)
leaf: 0x1c3588c 29579404 (0: nrow: 479 rrow: 479)
leaf: 0x1c3588d 29579405 (1: nrow: 479 rrow: 479)
leaf: 0x1c3588e 29579406 (2: nrow: 479 rrow: 479)
leaf: 0x1c3588f 29579407 (3: nrow: 479 rrow: 479)
A treedump simply lists each index block in the logical order of the index structure. Starting always with the index root block at the top, we notice that it's simply listed as a branch (albeit a rather important one). The characters after the branch keyword represent a hex (0x1c3588a) and decimal (29579402) version of the Relative Block Address (RBA), which is used by Oracle to find the actual physical location of the block. As there's only ever the one root block, it starts from position 0, the nrow: 222 denotes the root block points to 222 distinct index blocks in the level below it and level 1 denotes this is a level 1 index (height 2) so the blocks below the root block must all be leaf blocks (there are no intermediate branch levels in this case).
The first leaf block listed is the first block being referenced within the parent root block and must therefore be the "left-most" leaf block in the index structure. It has a RBA of hex (0x1c3588b) decimal(29579403), the –1 denotes it's the first leaf block (as the counter starts at -1), the nrow: 485 denotes the leaf block has 485 index entries and the rrow: 485 denotes that 485 of the index entries are non-deleted entries (meaning there are no deleted index entries in this specific leaf block).
The next leaf block in the treedump corresponds to the second block (number 0) referenced in the root block and is the second left-hand most leaf block in the index structure, followed by its specific details. The third leaf block (number 1) in the treedump is the third leaf block in the index structure and so on for all 222 leaf blocks in the index (the last leaf block numbered 220).
The RBA of any of these blocks in the treedump can be then used to determine which block of interest to block dump. The DBMS_UTILITY.DATA_BLOCK_ADDRESS_FILE and DBMS_UTILITY.DATA_BLOCK_ADDRESS_BLOCK functions can be used to covert the RBA into the corresponding DATAFILE ID and BLOCK ID in which to dump the block.
For example, to determine the DATAFILE and BLOCK of the third leaf block in the index:
SQL> SELECT DBMS_UTILITY.DATA_BLOCK_ADDRESS_FILE(29579405), 2 DBMS_UTILITY.DATA_BLOCK_ADDRESS_BLOCK(29579405) 3 FROM dual; DBMS_UTILITY.DATA_BLOCK_ADDRESS_FILE(29579405) ---------------------------------------------- DBMS_UTILITY.DATA_BLOCK_ADDRESS_BLOCK(29579405) ----------------------------------------------- 7 219277
So now we can confirm the index block of interest here is specifically located at datafile 7, block 219277.
OK, we now have the necessary basics to start block dumping a few index blocks and having a look at what they might show us.
- 3. Brian TKatch - February 17, 2010
Richard, this is great stuff.
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- 5. patrick huynh - March 12, 2010
Hi Richard,
Is this the only way to find out how many index entries in a block?
The reason i am asking this is to find out if i need to rebuild my index.
I have read your other post regarding rebuild indexes and in general we don't need to do it, but my index is inserted using sequential number and the entries got deleted quite often. However, there are still a fair bit of old entries, so i guess those blocks will not be reused for the new entry as the number getting bigger ( please correct me if i am wrong).
By doing the treedump (or other methods) i can identify the index blocks that have many deleted entries and if there's a large number of index blocks like that. Is it worthwhile to rebuild the index?
Patrick Huynh
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Great post. Reading this again recently reminded me of a project I wanted to start to visualise index tree dumps. It's a work in progress.
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